Sunday, 8 January 2017

Adultery is a mortal sin, but killing your spouse might - under certain circumstances - be a different matter. When the Irish Referendum votes against divorce, Maeve, being a good Catholic, prepares for action.

The Miser by MOULIÈRE translated by MILES MALLESONMoliere's enduring and hilarious comedy about a greedy old skinflint who tries to dash his children's wedding plans and increase the content of that moneybox he keeps hidden at the bottom of the garden....

'The age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators, has succeeded.'

Edmund Burke 's reaction to the French Revolution sparked off one of the most important political debates ever to be conducted in English. A debate that polarised British politics, and goaded his opponent, the 'infamous incendiary' Tom Paine, into writing one of the classic statements of radical political belief, The Rights of Man.

A two-part adaptation of Maria Edgeworth 's epic saga of an Anglo-Irish family, published in 1812.

1: Lady Clonbrony, determined to be accepted by fashionable London society, has sunk her family into debt to the moneylender Mordecai. She wants her son to make a good marriage, but his affections are not to be bought.

The second half of Maria Edgeworth 's saga of an Anglo-Irish family, published in 1812. Lord Colambre has travelled to Ireland for the first time to visit the Clonbrony estates but, unknown to him, Lady Dashfort is determined to trap him into marriage with her daughter Isabel.

Iris Murdoch 's Booker Prize-winning novel, dramatised in four parts, with John Wood as Charles and Joyce Redman as Hartley.

Dramatised by Richard Crane

2: The Light and Fire of My Life. By the wildest coincidence, Charles has discovered that Hartley, his "first and only true love", is now living in the village. Forty-five years on, love burns more strongly than ever. Is this to be a doomed brief encounter, or absolute happiness at last?

First of a six-part series set in the sleepy town of Ballylenon, Co Donegal, in 1953, before the days of mass tourism. Trouble brews when the McConkey sisters join forces with hotel owner Phonsie Doherty and campaign to have the town's Georgian courthouse demolished to make way for a car park.

Second of six episodes set in Ballylenon, Co Donegal, in 1953. Thwarted in their efforts to have the Georgian Courthouse demolished, Phonsie Doherty and the McConkey sisters prepare for a bitter war against the liberal press.

Music arranged and performed by Stephanie Hughes Director Eoin O'Callaghan